Barack Obama: “People call me a socialist sometimes, but you’ve got to meet real socialists"

Obama denies he is a socialist.

Via US News:

Obama also defended himself against charges that he’s a socialist.
“People call me a socialist sometimes, but you’ve got to meet real socialists, you’ll have a real sense of what a socialist is,” he said. “I’m talking about lowering the corporate tax rate, my health care reform is based on the private marketplace, the stock market is doing pretty good the last time I checked and it is true that I am concerned about growing inequality in the system, but nobody questions the efficacy of a market economy in terms of producing wealth and innovation and keeping us competitive.”

He was a candidate for the socialist-leaning New Party of Chicago in the 1990s.

 
Who was the New Party?

Via NRO:

The documents reveal that the New Party’s central aim was to move the United States steadily closer to European social democracy, a goal that Mitt Romney has also attributed to Obama. New Party leaders disdained mainstream Democrats, considering them tools of business, and promised instead to create a partnership between elected officials and local community organizations, with the goal of socializing the American economy to an unprecedented degree.
The party’s official “statement of principles,” which candidates seeking endorsement from the Chicago chapter were asked to support, called for a “peaceful revolution” and included redistributive proposals substantially to the left of the Democratic party.
To get a sense of the ideology at play, consider that the meeting at which Obama joined the party opened with the announcement of a forthcoming event featuring the prominent socialist activist Frances Fox Piven. The Chicago New Party sponsored a luncheon with Michael Moore that same year.

Andrew Breitbart: ACORN Clearing NY DA Is a Member of the Working Families "ACORN" Party

Andrew Breitbart spoke out on FOX News about the Prosecutors clearing NY ACORN workers, caught in the 'pimp' sting videos, of doing anything illegal. Breitbart responds, King County District Attorney Charles Hynes:

"Is a Member of the Working Families ACORN Party."

Breitbart said he tried to fully cooperate with the DA's office, but they weren't interested in any ACORN wrongdoing. They kept asking him who was funding him. If King County District Attorney Charles Hynes is a member of the ACORN funded ultra Left-Wing Working Families Party, the integrity of this investigation is seriously called into question. The WPA is an outgrowth of the old socialist New Party. The 'New Party" is the radical political party Barack Obama sought and received an endorsement from back in 1995 when he was running for State senate in Illinois.

Obama's Socialist Roots

Barack Obama mugs for the camera with Socialist New Party members

The left, under the cover of the mainstream media, refuses to admit Barack Obama's socialistic leanings. The truth is undeniable. Barack Obama sought and received the endorsement of the Socialistic/Marxist New Party when he ran for his 1996 Illinois state senate run. Some publications listed Obama as a New Party member.


New Party News (Spring 1996) attesting to Obama's membership


Who was the New Party?

From DiscoverTheNetworks:

Co-founded in 1992 by Daniel Cantor (a former staffer for Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign) and Joel Rogers (a sociology and law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), the New Party was a Marxist political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist public officials -- most often Democrats. The New Party's short-term objective was to move the Democratic Party leftward, thereby setting the stage for the eventual rise of new Marxist third party.

Most New Party members hailed from the Democratic Socialists of America and the militant organization ACORN. The party's Chicago chapter also included a large contingent from the Committees of Correspondence, a Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members.

The New Party's modus operandi included the political strategy of "electoral fusion," where it would nominate, for various political offices, candidates from other parties (usually Democrats), thereby enabling each of those candidates to occupy more than one ballot line in the voting booth. By so doing, the New Party often was able to influence candidates' platforms. (Fusion of this type is permitted in seven states -- Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Mississippi, New York, South Carolina, and Vermont -- but is common only in New York.)

Though Illinois was not one of the states that permitted electoral fusion, in 1995 Barack Obama nonetheless sought the New Party's endorsement for his 1996 state senate run. He was successful in obtaining that endorsement, and he used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers. By 1996, Obama had become a member of the New Party.

In 1996, three of the four candidates endorsed by the New Party won their electoral primaries. The three victors included Barack Obama (in the 13th State Senate District), Danny Davis (in the 7th Congressional District), and Patricia Martin, who won the race for Judge in the 7th Subcircuit Court. All four candidates attended an April 11, 1996 New Party membership meeting to express their gratitude for the party's support.